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n order to raise the University heads of the liberal and fine arts, social sciences of the authors of the study, in a phone interview of Oregon’s profile among other and humanities. After Coltrane’s announcement, with the Emerald. research universities, Provost Scott they signed a letter criticizing the administration Coltrane said that these cluster hires are Coltrane announced last month 34 new for ignoring their fields. Of the rejected projects, mostly “to really make a difference in terms of tenureI track positions, mainly in the sciences. almost half focused on the humanities. our prestige and our ranking.” UO’s student body While these projects are undoubtedly rewarding “The reaction of surprise and dismay from grew so fast in the last five years that tenure- and beneficial for UO’s image, some are faculty in these areas has been swift and track hiring has lagged. This initiative is to bring questioning whether it is the best use of the widespread,” they wrote. “Wasn’t there a single UO closer to AAU’s tenured faculty to student expected cost of tens of millions of dollars. proposal from these disciplines that would help ratio. Furthermore, prestigious research also From the onset, UO wants to hang onto its the university achieve the stated goals?” helps fundraising. membership in the American Association of Coltrane said that the decision was out of his Ed Awh said the new hires will help create Universities, an organization that ranks No. hands, since faculty panels chose the 10 winning a collaborative climate to tackle his research. 62 for public and private research institutions proposals. Awh coordinated one of the winning proposals, across the country. The rankings are compiled Another criticism is that undergraduates won’t focusing on neuroscience research that will study by numerous factors such as grant money and see many benefits from these new tenure-track the connection between neurons and minds. teacher-student ratio. Currently, UO’s ratio is researchers. There will still be classes of 500 “Bridging the gap between human and animal 35-1 — dead last compared to the 23-1 average people. The winning research proposals are models of neural function is a challenging goal,” of AAU’s other public schools. And UO produces so narrowly focused that they aren’t likely to he said. “Because it requires people with very only half the MAs and a quarter of the Ph.Ds as benefit the vast majority of undergraduates. different training and theoretical backgrounds to the others. Many universities say that research benefits put a lot of energy into finding common ground.” However, the “Clusters of Excellence undergraduates by trickling down to the Awh also said that undergraduates will get to Faculty Hiring” process aims to attract top- classroom, but according to a 2007 study, participate with the new research. notch researchers to secure UO’s reputation, it doesn’t. First appearing in the Journal of In the end, Coltrane said the clusters such creating 40 tenure-track positions in 10 research Engineering Education, the meta-analysis of as this will benefit students.” The opportunity focuses, from genetics to volcanology. The over 50 studies found that good research and to learn from someone who’s creating the proposals are mostly in science and psychology, good teaching require different goals and skill knowledge is huge.” plus one in sports products and one in sets. “There is no positive correlation between architecture. any measure of teaching we have and any This didn’t sit well with the 36 departmental measure of research,” said Michael Prince, one BY REBECCA BREWSTER @PARALLAX_ANGLE

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The Goo Goo Dolls have been selling As for this summer, Rzeznick had nothing but which generally winds up being pretty funny. But positive things to say. yeah, sometimes I’m thinking about doing my out shows and rocking world tours “We’ve been having a really good summer just laundry,” Rzeznik said. enjoying being out in front of people playing, it’s Their current tour has earned positive reviews since their start in the late 1980s. been really great,” he said. as they have played old and new hits to please The Goo Goo Dolls, a name chosen from an ad their dedicated fans. Rzeznik, who has now They will be hitting the Cuthbert once seen in a magazine, have been nominated for achieved musical veteran status, encourages several Grammys including Record of The Year young artists and those to who view him as an Amphitheater on July 18 as part of and Song of the Year in 1998 for their popular idol, to follow their passion. record Iris, as well as Best Pop Performance in “Both faith and fear cannot exist in the same their tour with Daughtry and the 1998 and Best Rock Performance in 2000. As of space so you know, don’t worry about tomorrow. 2013, when they dropped their newest album, Try to find your own voice — make sure you find Plain White T’s. Magnetic, it became their fourth-consecutive your own voice,” he said. “And don’t worry so album to hold a seat on the charts highly regarded much about becoming a quote, unquote ‘star’, a The band, which is composed of frontman Billboard Top 10 list. celebrity. The world is littered with celebrities that Johnny Rzeznik, vocalist and bassist Robby Rzeznik, a talented, witty guy with the typical are just absolutely useless, you know?” Takac and in its earlier years, George Tutuska rock-star twang shares his secret about how he The Goo Goo Dolls will be touring across the on the drums, has sold over 10 million records prepares differently for his shows today than he United States this summer, playing their rock beat worldwide. The group has held the No. 1 spot did in the past. and tunes to entertain their crowds with a blast on a variety of charts and has earned their fame “I make sure that I don’t get drunk first, and from the past and a series of current favorites for through decades of continued passion and then I’m ready for action,” he said. all to enjoy. The Friday night concert will open its success. During his shows, Rzeznik admits that there are gates at the Cuthbert at 5:30 p.m. The concert will “When I first started I was playing in front of a many things that are going through his head. kick-off at 6:45 p.m. Tickets can be purchased for hundred sweaty guys with their shirts off beating “Sometimes I try to look to the audience and get $41.50 online or $47 at the door this July 18. the hell out of each other,” Rzeznik said in a phone some inspiration from them, I like to play off the interview. “That was when I was a young indie audience. I love when people talk to me from the rock star. It sort of changed as I grew up.” audience, we can have a conversation together BY LEIGH SCHEFFEY, @LEIGHHHLEIGHHH

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t is not unusual for lecture classes to be filled Meyer said. with students checking their text messages, Although studies show that using electronics playing games, responding to emails and in the classroom can be detrimental to one’s updating their Facebook statuses all with the learning, some UO professors have incorporated Itouch of their fingertips. the use of cell phones to their lesson plans. Lynn Fujiwara, an ethnic studies and women Patrick Moneyang, a UO French language and gender studies professor at University of instructor, is aware of the risks that come with Oregon, is all too familiar with this phenomenon. allowing cell phone usage in the classroom, but Fujiwara has a no phone or electronics policy, believes that when used effectively can advance unless students have documented reasons for students’ learning. how electronic use can enhance their learning. Moneyang prefers students to not interrupt “Honestly, I find it completely annoying and the class with translation questions. He would disrespectful,” Fujiwara said. “I understand how rather have students find these definitions for COLLEGE NEWSPAPER dependent we are on our phones, but they’re themselves. putting a lot of resources into their education. “We live in the digital age and the class should OF THE YEAR 2012-13 Why short change yourself by not paying be a laboratory where students experience and attention in class?” learn about their time,” he said. “I use PowerPoint “ ... Their push to greatly expand Investigators from the lab of Larry Rosen, with constant access to YouTube and other the breadth and depth of what it a psychology professor at California State material available online.” University, Dominguez Hills, conducted a Although these professors prefer their means to be a student journalist 15-minute experiment in which they marked students to either lose their phones or use them and student newspaper is so down once a minute what students were doing productively, some UO students feel that they awe-inspiring it makes me smile as they did class work. The checklist included: can uphold the phone habit. writing on paper, texting, typing on the computer, “I text in class a lot when I feel tired. A lot of just thinking about it.” using email, engaging with social media and people do it,” said junior Rose Leng. “It’s possible surfing the web. to use your phone and listen at the same time. It’s — Dan Reimold, College Media Matters They noticed that students’ “on-task behavior” just not as good as giving your full attention to started to decline at the two-minute mark as the professor.” they began responding to text messages and Although she rarely uses her phone in the looking at their Facebook feeds. At the end of this classroom, junior Gabriela Saldaña also believes experiment, the students had only spent about that students have the right to make their own 65 percent of their time committing to their choices when it comes to using phones in the schoolwork. classroom. David Meyer, a psychology professor at the “Personally, I don’t care if other students use University of Michigan who focuses on the their phones,” she said. “If they choose to be on effects of divided attention on learning, said that their phone for an entire lecture and not pay the brain is not able to complete two complex attention, that’s on them.” tasks efficiently at the same time. “Listening to a lecture and being on Facebook is very demanding, and each of them uses the EMERALD MEDIA GROUP same area of the brain, the prefrontal cortex,” BY DEMILIZA SARAMOSING, @DEMIFROMTHEROCK DAILYEMERALD.COM

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“Why would you make this a confession rather than taking it to the police?”

“The people who comment on this page need to understand what the things they say do to those who are ACTUALLY victims.”

“Is there anything besides rape related posts anymore? I’m sorry, but this is not the appropriate forum for this kind of material.”

These are a few comment responses to anonymous confessions about sexual assault that have been shared on the “This page should consider a new name. UO Confessions Facebook page. ‘University of Oregon victims’ seems fitting. The entertainment and laughs of this page have been lost.”

PAGE 6 EMERALD MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014 ILLUSTRATION BY ELLIOTT TRAN AND JIANA CHEN READERS DISPUTE LIMITS OF UO CONFESSIONS PAGE SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVIVORS ARE TAKING THEIR STORIES TO FACEBOOK, leading commenters to question the purpose of the anonymous page.

WARNING: This story may trigger some readers. comment for this story. the best place for this kind of discussion because But even these postings leave a digital its audience isn’t receptive to these types of footprint. Sameer Hinduja, a professor at confessions. Many commenters have told the Jessica Brown informed her family, Florida Atlantic University and co-director survivors not to share their stories on the page. of the Cyberbullying Research Center, said “That’s the kind of commentary that keeps it friends and the police immediately while confessions page administrators don’t know from being resolved, that keeps people silent and the writers’ identities, law enforcement can still suffering from it,” she said. after she was sexually assaulted. work with social media platforms to determine These posts might be discomforting to read, but who submits each confession if a possible crime is Cooley said that it might be a good thing because it She received incredible support involved. could cause people to consider the seriousness of If police have enough specific information to this issue. after that horrific night in April of pursue an investigation, they could have a court Carol Stabile, a UO professor and director of subpoena the page and discover the poster’s the Center for the Study of Women in Society 2001, but the incident still ate at her. identity, according to University of Oregon Police said, “someone pays for the party.” In other words, Department spokesman Kelly McIver. However, people often suffer in a party culture like the one Whenever she left her suburban home, she’d tell that still doesn’t guarantee an admission from the emphasized on UO Confessions, and she believes her father, “Watch me walk from the front door confessor. people should be able to talk on this page about the to the car,” just to be safe. She felt ashamed for “You’d have to have a pretty interesting party culture’s casualties (i.e. rape survivors). wearing “pretty underwear” the night of the assault. confluence of circumstances to find a person Survivors often feel hesitant to report assaults, As supportive as her friends and family were, none who said, ‘Yeah, I posted this,’” said McIver, who Stabile said, because a stigma attaches to so many of them could possibly know what she was going strongly encourages people to report all crimes and who come forward. Plus, the criminal justice through. suspicious conditions to the police. system often fails to punish perpetrators. Maybe So Brown, 27 years old at the time, searched Facebook confession pages started gaining some survivors feel the only place they can go is an the Internet for some place to get support. About popularity about a year and a half ago and the UO anonymous online forum. a month after she was assaulted, she stumbled Confessions page was created in December 2012. “Where else are you going to do it where it’s less upon Pandora’s Aquarium, a message board where The confessions page for Chico State encountered consequence-free?” Stabile said. sexual assault survivors could post their stories. a similar situation to UO Confessions. On March Multiple commenters on the UO Confessions Brown wrote her story under an anonymous name. 24 of this year, the first of eight survivor posts page have mentioned support groups like SASS When she clicked submit, she felt relieved but also appeared on Chico College Confessions, and the where survivors can get help while remaining terrified. She was sharing her story with the world. rest appeared over the next two months. anonymous. Beltran said, in general, it’s standard Would people react kindly? One of the Chico page’s administrators, Alberto practice for community-based agencies similar to Her fears dissipated. She got support from people Chavez, remembers feeling shocked when these SASS offer anonymous services. who experienced the same pain, and it helped her submissions starting rolling in, but he didn’t want While agencies like SASS, Facebook confessions heal. to ignore them, so the stories were posted. Unlike pages, applications such as Whisper and bathroom “That might be one drawback to posting on UO Confessions, almost every comment supported walls have served as anonymous outlets for Facebook anonymously,” Brown said. “You don’t the survivors. survivors, Pandora’s Aquarium (expanded into know who your audience is.” “We were glad we did put that on the page Pandora’s Project) might be the most popular Recently, several survivors have posted because I think the (survivors) got the help they destination for these people. anonymously on Facebook in search of the same needed,” Chavez says. “Over 50,000 have passed through our virtual healing Brown sought 13 years ago. Like UO Confessions, many Chico commenters doors,” Brown said of Pandora’s Project. “It’s Between June 15-29 of this year, the University suggested survivors get help elsewhere, but some international.” of Oregon Confessions Facebook page posted four seemed commanding. BB Beltran, the executive Brown, the organization’s co-founder, said while stories from anonymous survivors. Commenters director of Sexual Assault Support Services, counseling services offered at universities can be unanimously supported these confessors at first, believes suggesting survivors get help elsewhere is helpful, their schedules are often too limited. (The but the tone shifted when the third post appeared problematic. UO has a 24-hour hotline for survivors.) on June 24. One commenter asked the confessor, “The problem comes in when the word ‘should’ is “When you’ve been sexually assaulted, you’re “How about you stop sulking about your past and used,” Beltran says. dealing with that all week long,” Brown said. “You live up your summer?” and several said the page She stresses that survivors should do what they might be sitting there at 2 o’clock in the morning was the wrong platform for survivors. think is most helpful. If posting on a Facebook page and something’s eating you alive and it’s really Debate raged on the page into July, causing accomplishes that, she fully supports it. helpful just to post your feelings.” several people to question UO Confessions’ true Several UO Confessions commenters argue that But Brown also said every survivor heals purpose. the page’s sole purpose is to be humorous. differently. Ultimately, she thinks the worst thing While people like Brown believe an anonymous “The greater majority of these students have survivors can do is keep their experiences to outlet can be cathartic for survivors, others dispute not dealt with rape or sexual assault firsthand, themselves. Simply getting it off their chest can the real value of these survivor accounts. Are these and do not know how to react when such a topic be healing, which is why she believes a Facebook people getting help elsewhere? Which forum is is mentioned,” said Duncan Alexander, a junior confessions page might be a great place for best for them? And what do these posts say about a business and economics major at the UO. survivors to flock. culture where rape permeates? Alexander, who knows a survivor, said these “It’s just one way of saying, ‘I’m not going to let To post a Facebook confession, someone simply posts might provide instant relief but feels this this shame control me,’” Brown said. has to click a link on the confessions page, write might prevent survivors from getting more a short post and submit it. If the administrators meaningful help. deem a confession worthy of publication, they post Christina Cooley, a senior cultural anthropology it. The UO Confessions administrators declined to major, agrees that UO Confessions might not be BY VICTOR FLORES, @VFLORES415

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Q&A Former Oregon basketball player Mike Moser provides insight on life in NBA Summer League

After finishing his collegiate career at the University of Oregon, forward Mike Moser sheds light on his experience with the Boston Celtics, while playing for their summer league team.

ust months after his college career ended They really wanted me to play for their summer overseas, you name it, all my life. Whether at the University of Oregon, forward Mike league team. It’s funny because they weren’t a it’s during the summer playing against NBA Moser has made the jump to the NBA team I really worked out for, but through word of players or during the year against Division I Summer League. After going undrafted in mouth they knew what I did down here (Oregon) college guys, there’s never been a shortness of thisJ year’s draft, Moser has averaged 13.0 (PPG) and they were really intrigued. competition. and 3.5 (RPG) for the Boston Celtics through his first four games. He hopes to earn a spot on the HOW HAS THE EXPERIENCE BEEN WITH A RECENTLY, ASSISTANT COACH JAY LARRANGA HAD NBA roster heading into the season. HISTORIC FRANCHISE LIKE BOSTON? A LOT OF POSITIVES ON YOUR PLAY THUS FAR, They’re one of those teams that went through HOW DOES IT FEEL TO GET SOME PRAISE, DESPITE HAVING BEEN PREVIOUSLY PROJECTED AS A a rough patch last season and are kind of in a NOT HAVING A GUARANTEED ROSTER SPOT? FIRST-ROUND PROSPECT WHEN AT UNLV, DID YOU rebuilding mode. (But) it’s one of those places It’s definitely nice to hear, but it’s also HAVE ANY EXPECTATIONS PRIOR TO THE DRAFT? (where) you expect them to get back to the top humbling. These are guys that coach at the I knew it was a slim chance being a fifth-year just because of their history. You go to their highest level, so I obviously key into it and listen senior, so I definitely didn’t get my hopes up. practice facilities and see their championship to everything they say and try to shuffle as much Going undrafted is good because you get to pick banners. knowledge as I can. At the same time, I’m just your own team and who you want to work out looking for that opportunity to make one of for. Either way, it was a good opportunity. I had WHAT WAS IT LIKE GETTING THE CALL TO COME these teams. It’s good to know it’s moving in the 15 workouts and the majority of them went really PLAY FOR THE CELTICS FROM DANNY AINGE, WHO right direction. well. IS ALSO AN OREGON NATIVE THAT GREW UP IN EUGENE? EVEN AT THE SUMMER LEAGUE LEVEL, HAVE YOU WAS IT GOOD TO SEE FORMER PAC-12 OPPONENTS Danny Ainge is obviously a legend from where NOTICED A DRASTIC CHANGE IN THE AMOUNT OF LIKE JORDAN ADAMS AND KYLE ANDERSON GET I’m from (Portland, Oregon). It’s definitely RESOURCES THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO YOU? DRAFTED IN THE FIRST ROUND AFTER KNOWING something that makes you feel good. Knowing Everything is done so diligently here and it’s YOU’VE COMPETED WELL AGAINST THEM? he wants you to come play for his club and being definitely a blessing. You just get that sense that Definitely good to see Pac-12 guys being asked by the Boston Celtics just makes it that it’s easier to make this your job. It’s a part time successful. It motivates me and there’s definitely much better. thing in college. Everybody is just so serious a sense of confidence there knowing you’ve done about everything they’re doing. well against a lot of these highly touted guys. ANY ADJUSTMENT IN REGARD TO THE LEVEL OF PLAY IN THE NBA? HOW WAS THE MOVE TO BOSTON? It wasn’t much of an adjustment for me. Boston was the first team to call after the draft. I’ve been playing against potential pros, pros BY HAYDEN KIM, @HAYDAYKIM

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� OPINION Movies don’t have to be three hours long to be good

alking up to the movie theater and still not great. While others, such as Stand By Me movies with long running times in order to get at taking in a big whiff of buttered (1986) at 89 minutes, are relatively short and least some plot development. popcorn can put a smile on anyone’s remarkable. Increasing the length seems only to add face. However, those smiles might Cinema studies instructor Stephen Rust unnecessary plot points that often make the notW be as big when leaving the theater because believes that there are length expectations for movie feel like it is going in circles. Movies everyone’s butt is in pain after sitting for three certain genres. such as Avatar (2009) at 162 minutes and hours. Visiting the movie theater has become an “I’ve been to plenty of movies that could Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) at 165 event. It is not simply about the film, but about have benefited from some more concise editing minutes have multiple fighting scenes that serve the entire experience. The experience feels like it choices. But since running times for genre films the same purpose for the plot and generally have is getting longer as many of today’s blockbuster have been developed over a hundred plus years the same effect on the audience. After watching movies run for over two hours. Are all movies of cinema, it can feel like action adventure films computer generated imagery fights for two actually getting longer or just certain genres? for example just ‘shouldn’t be’ longer than two hours most of the audience has lost interest. Cierra Garcia, a junior human physiology hours,” he said. Long movies aren’t a problem. The problem major, has no problem walking out of a theater. Throughout cinematic history, many of the is deciding which stories need to be long and “I base the quality of a movie off of content and highest-grossing films have been lengthy such which stories need to be short. If a movie is full production; however, no matter how amazing a as The Sound of Music (1965) at 174 minutes and of thought provoking instances and can make movie is, I would rather not sit for three hours in Titanic (1997) at 194 minutes. However, many the viewer feel something for three hours then a movie theater,” Garcia said. of today’s movies are longer because they are it should be three hours. If a movie is full of Since feature films were first created, there action films that require many special effects. cartoon robots fighting for three hours then its have been movies that critics believed needed Special effects have become more prominent length needs to be reconsidered. to show more and movies that needed to show in films, the technology has also improved, less. Some of the highest-grossing films of lowering the cost. Filmmakers are now trying to all time are long, but a film’s length does not squeeze in as many exciting scenes as possible. determine its quality. Many are lengthy and are According to Rust, filmmakers must make BY TANNER OWENS

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Four pre-season GameDay issues are published every Thursday from August 7 thru August 28. All issues are distributed on campus the Thursday prior to the game and at Autzen Stadium during home games.

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